The week leading up to the Super Bowl consistently produces a media frenzy rife with sentimentality and goofy over-reaching, but fortunately ESPN's resident First Take troll is still asking the hard questions: Could Tim Tebow lead the current Broncos team to the Super Bowl? Let that sink in for a second (not the hypothetical; the fact that it was asked). I was reluctant to even mention it, but this is such extreme self-parody that it had to be acknowledged. We are all slightly dumber now, so, sorry.

It's glorious. If he can get a three-person Mariachi band to follow him with festive music my head might explode with excitement.

Ogie Ogilthorpe Is Real, and He's a Real Badass

We mentioned in our 25 Best Sports Villains collection that Slapshot's Ogie Ogilthorpe (#21) is based on minor league brawler Bill “Goldie” Goldthorpe. Goldthorpe explained in a recent interview that he resented that he didn't get a part in the movie, and didn't watch it for 10 years after it was released. The now 59-year-old Goldthorpe, who amassed 1,132 penalty minutes in only 194 pro games, said that he's been shot, stabbed, deported after an airport scuffle, jailed, and once ended up fighting on the ice during a game in which he was not even playing. Have a listen.